The world changed. Gatherings over 25 people didn't.
Most gatherings end in applause and change nothing. It isn't the people, it's the design: the room gets filled with a schedule, not built to produce. See what separates the gatherings that actually move something, then design yours so people leave connected, decided, and committed.
Direct answer: this is the public agenda intelligence atlas. Public agendas usually publish schedules, not proof loops: across 23,624 scored agendas the average Gathering Effectiveness Score is 21.8/100, zero score above 60, and 21,781 show no visible follow-up or tracking evidence.
For the first time, someone measured the design quality of gatherings at scale. The results are damning, useful, and fixable.
A public source page or agenda slice captured from the web. The source URL is the evidence trail.
One session, break, or activity inside an agenda, classified by format and purpose.
A strict 0 to 100 reading of visible outcome design across eight pillars. Opinion from public evidence.
The bridge most agendas miss: commitments, owners, follow-up, and evidence after the room.
Public agendas publish a schedule, not a proof loop.
An agenda tells you who speaks and when. It rarely shows the bridge from session to commitment, from commitment to follow-up, and from follow-up to evidence. Watch the corpus fall off a cliff after the room ends.
Shares of the scored corpus showing each mechanism. Follow-through averages just 5.8 out of 100, the weakest of the eight pillars.
What actually changes
You have sat through every row on the left. The right column is the room designed to produce something. Open a row.
Eight mechanisms. These are the real corpus averages.
Not illustrations: the actual average score of each pillar across every scored agenda. This is what the world's gatherings look like today.
People doing, not just watching: the share of the agenda that is interactive.
Named owners, dates, commitments, and visible tracking after the room.
One costly, named problem the gathering is actually working on.
Content and connections tailored to attendee goals, not one-size-fits-all.
Deliberate bridging so the right people meet, instead of by chance.
Applied behavior at 30 to 90 days, not a feeling at the exit door.
Baseline, comparison, and follow-up so a skeptic could verify what changed.
Value created against time, energy, hybrid reality, and AI-augmented work.
See where the room leaks value.
Pick a common block. Each is supposed to produce something. The question is whether the agenda gives it the method, the participation, and the artifact to do it.
Ten ways in.
Paste a draft, get an instant GES and the one missing mechanism. Free and private.
Open →Paste an attendee list, set the sliders, get teams designed for outcomes. The patented engine, free and private.
Open →Twelve gathering types, rebuilt from what the strongest real agendas actually do.
Open →Field-tested exercises organized by the pillar they strengthen, with honest provenance.
Open →The right opener for any room: first meetings, executive-safe, no-materials, hybrid.
Open →The citable numbers: primary data from the whole corpus.
Open →Pioneers, meeting scientists, and facilitators shaping how the world gathers.
Open →How your industry designs its rooms, pillar by pillar.
Open →The grant, the Exchange, the 1,245-person experiment, and what failed.
Open →Connect the whole atlas to Claude, Codex, Cursor, or any MCP client.
Open →The same evidence, read for your job.
Benchmark a draft agenda before the budget is locked, and find the one missing mechanism.
Open this lens →Inspect whether the agenda creates qualified interaction, not just logos and visibility.
Open this lens →Turn passive blocks into participant work, with patterns drawn from the corpus.
Open this lens →Require proof architecture before funding another expensive room.
Open this lens →Turn raw event listings into scored agenda intelligence.
Open this lens →A living map of how people gather.
Every record links to its public source. Scores read visible design evidence, not fame or attendance. Three from the verified set:
Run the room forward.
The Gathering World Model is a model of everyone in the room, so you can see who would meet, what would change, and what a traditional format leaves on the table that a designed one captures. Every piece of it is already live on this site: the attendee models, the engine that pairs them, the score that separates a traditional room from a transformed one. The full simulation is the frontier we are building. Step inside.
A new physics of work.
For most of history, the way people gather in groups over 25 has barely changed. We finally have the tools to design the room around what people do together, then measure what changed honestly.
Make the gap visible
Show, at scale, the distance between a published schedule and an agenda designed to produce outcomes.
Give the method away
Free templates, free grading, free source-linked evidence, so any organizer can redesign the room before the budget locks.
Measure what changed
Move from "did they like it?" to "what moved because we gathered?" Owners, transfer, ties, results.